THE GERMAN NAVY.
1 » — r LONDON, June 9. The Times cays it is reported in Berlin and Kiel that contracts have been signed for flic construction of two ships "for ths 1909 programme, -which Admiral yon Tirpitz assured the Reichstag had been unplaced until some months after the conditions had been drawn up in the late summer." ' BERLIN, June 9. The Naval Estimates for the current" year total £19,500,000, "whereof £5,250,000 ■will be met by loan. , % June 10. The Berliner Tageblatt announces ai Naval Act for 1911, providing for the more rapid construction of big . armoured cruisers.
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Otago Witness, Issue 2882, 16 June 1909, Page 19
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97THE GERMAN NAVY. Otago Witness, Issue 2882, 16 June 1909, Page 19
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